Social Worker – Fostering Recruitment and Assessment Team

4 weeks ago


Huntingdon, United Kingdom Cambridge County Council Full time

We have an exciting 12 month fixed term or secondment opportunity within one of our Cambridgeshire Fostering Recruitment and Assessment Teams. We are looking for a full-time Social Worker who has experience in undertaking Special Guardian and Connected Person's Assessments, Fostering Form F Assessments and Private Fostering Assessments. However, if you have good assessment skills and a desire to learn, we would be willing to support you to achieve this.

This is a hybrid role with a mix of office (Scott House, Huntingdon) and home working.

For more information, contact:

  • Vanessa Canning, Team Manager: 07467 337694, vanessa.canning@cambridgeshire.gov.uk
  • Ana Caldararu: 07484 021637, ana.caldararu@cambridgeshire.gov.uk

Interviews will be held in person, week commencing 10th February 2025.

Appointment to this post will be subject to the outcome of an Enhanced Disclosure obtained through the Disclosure and Barring Service. The Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

If you are applying for this role as a secondment, you must speak to your line manager before applying to confirm that you can be released from your substantive post.

Our benefits:

We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits in addition to the basics like annual leave, sick pay, pension and mileage:

  • A comprehensive wellbeing package to cover all aspects of wellbeing, both in and out of work, which can also be accessed by your family.
  • 6 days of protected time each year to support in maintaining your Continuous Professional Development.
  • A Refer a Friend Scheme where if you refer another Social Worker to us who is subsequently employed by us as a result of that introduction, we'll pay you an introduction fee of £350.
  • Access to our Cambridgeshire Academy for Reaching Excellence (CARE) who will support your development, enabling you to become the best practitioner you can be.

For more information and to see our other benefits, take a look at the benefits brochure attached to this advert.

What will you be doing?

You will undertake Special Guardian and Connected Person's assessments and support plans, and provide supervision to temporary Connected Person's Foster Carers as appropriate.

You will undertake Fostering Form F assessments for applicants wanting to become Foster carers and support them throughout their journey to approval.

You will also undertake Private Fostering Assessments and Regulation 8 visits.

About you:

We are looking for a qualified, experienced, and registered social worker with excellent assessment and critical analysis skills. You will have had some court experience and you will have excellent verbal and written communication skills.

You must have the ability to work from a variety of locations and travel countywide independently.

For a full list of the requirements of the role, please check out the Job Description & Person Specification.

About us:

Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.

Our four values are central to our culture, driving everything we do.

We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we firmly believe benefits our colleagues, the organisation and our communities. If you don't meet every single requirement in the job role but think this could be you, please don't be put off. We are committed to building a workplace that is compassionate and inclusive as well as diverse, so if you think you could be a good candidate for this role please consider applying and speak to the recruiting manager if you have any questions.

Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, along with our employee network 'IDEAL' and self-organised peer support groups help us to foster an inclusive, supportive and safe working environment where people feel valued, respected, and empowered. We collect relevant diversity data for monitoring as part of the recruitment process to understand the diversity of our applicants and monitor any trends throughout the recruitment processes so that we can take meaningful action.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. We fully support providing reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process, as well as when you join us, and we encourage candidates to contact the Hiring Manager, whose details can be found in the advert, to discuss any adjustment needs.

Visit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion.

http://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/council/jobs-and-careers

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